Category Archives: Programming

FamilyLink.com + Kynetx: How websites could be better with your family

I’ve been playing around with Kynetx.com technology. I think it has a lot of cool potential for helping FamilyLink.com users see who their relatives are across multiple websites. For example, What if you could see your FamilyLink.com relatives directly in … Continue reading

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Reminiscing about Provo411.com and Scraping the Course Catalog

One of my first web development projects and biz partnerships with Brian Stucki was Provo411.com. We were roommates at BYU and conceived of a website where students could share events -- parties, concerts, football games, etc. We were already in … Continue reading

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More Flow, More Happiness

I usually spend only 20% of my workday programming, but this week I've been doing more of it and it's been awesome. There's something really rewarding about refactoring code -- making it more concise, more logical, more consistent. More beautiful. … Continue reading

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Notes on Facebook

Thursday evening I presented briefly at the Utah Facebook Developers Garage. Here are the links and articles I shared: How big is it? Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur ยป Prediction: Facebook will be the largest social network in the world blog.pmarca.com: … Continue reading

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Amtrak series: Ruby on Rails on Rails

This will be the most technical of my posts in the Amtrak series, but it's not just for computer geeks so stay with me. Here we go. Ruby on Rails is a "web application framework", a way for programmers to … Continue reading

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